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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 9, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                18 the stars and stripes Forks Althea Gibson saved touring Tennis throne with a comeback Victory Over Parlene hard in the singles finals sunday and in a surprising relinquished it for a singing i May never play tournament Tennis the Sai Iglins new York girl said after boating miss a bouncy sex waitress from Lor her second straight nationals Althea rallying marking her one of the Alhime greats of the and her pronouncement in a hurry up press Rono Nerp overshadowed the All australian inns final Between Ashley Cooper Cooper reversed the result of the 1957 final and won the title with a Comerro behind Triumph Over his Davis cup and he accomplished the feat in Juring his right in the 12th game of the final the darkly handsome Young Man from Melbourne thus completed a rare triple Wimbledon and crowns in a single the match produced Brilliant Tennis particularly in the final two sets Between two players who seemed to anticipate each others every miss who Learned the game with crude on the sidewalks of was heavily bundled and sniffling with a cold when she was ushered into the press marquee at the West Side ten Nis this was my last tournament match for at least a she i will not defend at Wimbledon next year nor at Forest i plan to concentrate on my singing at her Elbow were a lawyer and National Champ Althea Gibson to forego Tennis for singing career Maas Trade shutouts As senators split with yanks new York Pete Ramos padded his shutout string against new York to 22 innings with a 10 decision sunday before Duke Maas blanked the on four singles in the Nightcap of the the split reduced the magic number to six Lor another american league any combination of new York victories defeats by second place Chicago totalling six makes it Aine flags in 10 years for Man Ager Casey Stengels who finished the season against Washington with a 1210 the senators haunt won that Many from new York since an 11n standoff in and they won their first season series at Yankee stadium in 21 win Ning seven straight before the Nightcap for a 74 a slim right hander who blanked the with a six hitter in their last Britain cops Swiss open Switzerland ish Ryder cup player Ken Bous Reid won the Swiss open Golf championship Here in a Neckband neck finish with Flory Van British golfers took eight of the first 10 was in trouble Only that was in the fourth when the champs loaded the bases with none out after a 54minute delay be cause of but Ramos Cut Down Yogi Berra on a Popup and got Bill Skowron on a double play the Las place held to five beat Bobby Shantz in the fourth before the Rains a Roy Sievers ground Rule double and an infield out bagged h for getting his first shutout and second consecutive Complete game As a Yankee after failing to finish in 10 drove in the first run with Alwo out single in the second against loser veto Tony Kubek hit his second Home and Elston Howard his Lith for the Kubes was an inside Shepark Job leading off the third Howard reached his major league High with a three run Belt in the seventh off reliever John Mickey with two strike outs in the opener that pushed his Yankee record to was 3for3 and stole two bases in the night Norm Siebern three of the yank hits in the two of them sox scores on Page 99 fines split with Milwaukee Spall n cops 19th Pittsburgh a league leading Milwaukee and second place trying to make a rattle out of the National league split a doubleheader sunday As the braves maintained their reliever Roy face choked off a ninth inning Brave rally for a 41 pirate Victory in the Nightcap after Veteran Southpaw Warren Spahn and left Lelder Wes Covington teamed up to give Milwaukee an opening 31 face replaced starter Vernon 28yearold who had a four hitter going into the ninth and haunt permitted a run Ner to reach Law got credit for his 12th Victory against 11 go Wes first game1 Milwaukee ail k h sort v u in Pittsburgh a u 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world tourney new 5tork up a six Man team left by plane for Stockholm to compete in the world championships there included on the squad Are bantamweight Charles 1966 olympic Champion Isaac 1956 olympic featherweight titlist Tommy 1956 olympic Light heavyweight Winner who will compete in the Middle weight s Jim 1956 olympian and a Light heavyweight David Paui a Middle heavyweight and 1956 and David 1957 and 1958 heavyweight san the group will be accompanied by Clarence National a a weightlifting chairman As Bob As and Johnnj As r official Dies Dallas up Frank personnel director of the Chi Cago suffered a fatal heart attack Korch was stricken aboard a plane about to depart for Chicago and was pronounced dead on arrival at Parkland september they nodded their Heads la if Ahreas singing career is a she never will return to competitive said her coach and chief adviser Sydney her main interest i raft be to secure her Althea has appeared on National tale vision with her throaty Rendi Tion of popular ballads and has Cut one record album called Althea Gibson she recently completed her which ran serially in a tonal Magazine and have been put into Book bight now i say i will be out of Tan Nis a Althea i want to predict what will happen after that but soon i will begin to slip Back and that wont be pleasant i would prefer to quit at the asked if she would be open to a professional Tennis offer u one came from promoter Jack miss Gibson said we would older x she quickly added that no offer had been in town for television commentary on the matches said he would be interested but there was no Able opponent the Only possibility would be Maureen Little to Connorty and Maureen definitely la capturing the the 31yearold new yorker plated one of the rarest feats in women that of winning two Wimbledon and two nation Al titles Bac Toback in two miss Connolly did it in 1952 and before you must go All the Way Back to Helen wills in the Golden twenties to match the a with her press conference previously Althea had some anxious moments in her final match with the 22yearold College girl she beat in the 1957 Wimbledon final obviously unafraid and hitting with All her miss hard won the first set Woje a tense gallery of watched Ija awed by Champ Althea Ras not at her Best in the opening missing volleys which she normally gobbled and overshooting the Baseline with her Llott miss who seemed completely unwed by the applied the pressure with a Strong net after winning the first miss hard was Able to win Only three games in the next the beginning of the end for the Happy Lucky challenger came in the third game of the second she ran up a 400 Lead on her service and then ran into a Fobbing attack As deadly As Cannon Althea dumped three straight lobs on the won five straight Points for a the first of six straight mans land Darlene strategy was she repeatedly got herself caught in no mans Halfway to the net where Althea either sent a Low shot at her feet or tossed lob Over her miss hard won the first game of the third set with a service in the second Althea took a Nasty fall while scrambling for a Ball and Lay on the ground awhile As if in she slammed her Racket to the she got up wringing her Racket if she was she didst show it intensifying her she won six of the next seven continued on Page Columbia defeats Vint on trial re up Bia beat vim sunday and moved into the Lead in Coaten Ploit to be named defender in the americas cup yacht race against Columbia raced the Lay Earold vim Over a 24mile finish ing in to the letters vim beat Columbia last Friday to even the after elimination of two other contenders earlier in the saturdays race was cancelled because of either the newly built Columbia or the Veteran vim Watt meet the British in a  series starting sept  
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